Re: [PLUG] ending a process from outside

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@netaxs.com>]

> Again, I know I could write a C or perl program that does a fork,
> waits four seconds in the parent, then kills the child with first
> SIGINT, then SIGKILL. And I know that wouldn't be very hard. But it
> seems there should be a simpler way.

As a quick hack, you could do something along the lines of the
following in bash:

    #!/bin/bash

    for f in $*; do
        xv $f & child=$!; disown
        sleep 4 || stop=1
        kill -TERM $child >/dev/null
        test $stop && break
    done

-mct